01456nam a22001577a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040002700080082001400107100001700121245006400138260006400202300003200266500100000298OSt20260227101145.0260227b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780521821384  cGoethe Zentrum Library  aCA2003/03  aParet, Peter  aAn Artist against the Third Reich:bErnst Barlach 1933-1938  aCambridgebPress Syndicate of University of Cambridgec2003  a191 p.b;illustrationc15cm  aThe conflict betweebn Ernst Barlach ,the most important German sculptor of the time ,and the Third Reich is a remarkable episode in Hitler's war against modern art. Rather than accept repression passively, Barlach denounced the confiscation and destruction of his work as ideologically inspired and continued on his independent course. The author's discussion of Barlach's art and of his insistence on creative freedom is joined to an analysis of his opponents' motives and tactics. Hitler's ill-informed rantings against modernism in German art  were nevertheless an internally consistent  and politically effective critique of liberal culture.That despite Hitler's strictures some National Socialists advocated a "Nordic modernism| and tried to win Barlach to their cause exemplifies the cultural crosscurrents running through the Third Reich .Peter Paret's closely focused study of an artist in a time of crisis seamlessly combines the history of modern Germany and the history of modern art.